But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Still people are dangerous.
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